"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA _____________________________________________________

From the website of the Communist Party, USA... (prior to the election)

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

A breakthrough electionCongratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-peoples movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all peoples movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and peoples unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.

In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.

We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.

We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.

In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.

Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.

Isnt it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?

Cant we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?

And isnt the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system  a system steeped in racism  no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?

Having observed protests ad nauseum in Berkeley, it’s been my experience that the ones who are actually out on the street are not inclined to follow ideological organizations like Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, Institute of Policy Studies, Demos etc...they’re simply to lazy and indifferent.

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posted on 10/17/2011 12:24:05 AM PDT
by Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)

Correct. The vast majority of the protesters/participants are the “useful idiots” of the communist organizers. They are naive, young, gullible, ignorant of history, impressionable, and, did I mention stupid?

“The vast majority of the protesters/participants are the useful idiots of the communist organizers. They are naive, young, gullible, ignorant of history, impressionable, and, did I mention stupid?”

I don’t think they’re in the bag for Obama; a lot of them speak out against him and the false hope he sold. The fact that they are unemployed will probably determine how they vote, and once it is clear (as it has been made clear over the last several months) that the government won’t fabricate jobs for them, they’ll probably be open to supporting anyone with an alternative business plan. Don’t underestimate the role unemployment plays in these protests; if these people had jobs there would be no protests.

Might I suggest next time you use the phrase..."Vids (only) at link". I actually wasted time following the link to find out that there was no written article. I'm pretty deaf, and don't "do" on-line videos due to crappy sound quality. That, and the fact that I can digest a written article in about 1/10th the time it takes to watch a video.

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